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The Robotic Drawing Machine was built by maker/designer/craftsman Sandy Noble and he calls it a Polargraph which is really nothing more than a pen attached to string that’s moved by two small motors.
With an assist from good ‘ole gravity and some clever software the pen arcs back and forth, similar to a standard back-and-forth plotter printer, creating the beautifully textured drawings above.
Stumbled upon this many months ago but managed to forget the name and couldn’t find it again. Cheers!
Filosofisk text av Zach Barnett. Bra!
The following dialogue was published by Cambridge University Press: THINK 29, Vol. 10 (Autumn 2011)
© 2011 Royal Institute of Philosophy All Rights Reserved
by Allen B. Downey
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Description
This book is about complexity science, data structures and algorithms, intermediate programming in Python, and the philosophy of science:
- Data structures and algorithms: A data structure is a collection that contains data elements organized in a way that supports particular operations. For example, a dictionary organizes key-value pairs in a way that provides fast mapping from keys to values, but mapping from values to keys is generally slower.
An algorithm is a mechanical process for performing a computation. Designing efficient programs often involves the co-evolution of data structures and the algorithms that use them. For example, the first few chapters are about graphs, a data structure that is a good implementation of a graph—-nested dictionaries—-and several graph algorithms that use this data structure.
- Python programming: This book picks up where Think Python leaves off. I assume that you have read that book or have equivalent knowledge of Python. As always, I will try to emphasize fundmental ideas that apply to programming in many languages, but along the way you will learn some useful features that are specific to Python.
- Computational modeling: A model is a simplified description of a system that is useful for simulation or analysis. Computational models are designed to take advantage of cheap, fast computation.
- Philosophy of science: The models and results in this book raise a number of questions relevant to the philosophy of science, including the nature of scientific laws, theory choice, realism and instrumentalism, holism and reductionism, and Bayesian epistemology.
Another static site generator?
With the ever growing population of static site generators, all filling a certain need, I’ve yet to find one that allows the generation of anything but the simplest of blogs.
That’s where mynt comes in, being designed to give you all the features of a CMS with none of the often rigid implementations of those features.
Highlights
- Multiple ways of getting posts how you want, whether ordered by year and month, or by tag.
- Automatic generation of common pages such as those for archives and tags.
- Freedom in the markup language and rendering engine used.
Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) is a universal, XML based, open file format designed to store graffiti motion data (x and y coordinates and time). The format is designed to maximize readability and ease of implementation, even for hobbyist programmers, artists and graffiti writers. Popular applications currently implementing GML include Graffiti Analysis and EyeWriter. Beyond storing data, a main goal of GML is to spark interest surrounding the importance (and fun) of open data and introduce open source collaborations to new communities. GML is intended to be a simple bridge between ink and code, promoting collaborations between graffiti writers and hackers. GML is today’s new digital standard for tomorrow’s vandals.
(Source: graffitimarkuplanguage.com)
We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we’ve connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world.
Udacity was founded by three roboticists who believed much of the educational value of their university classes could be offered online. A few weeks later, over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled in our first class, “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.”
Background
What if we could save money, radically reduce our environmental impact, and have a freer, less complicated life?
Treehugger founder Graham Hill has part of the answer: we need to have less stuff and live in smaller spaces, like the 420sf (~39 m2) apartment he will renovate in 2011. With some design and technology magic, we think 420 square feet can allow for working at home, space for 2 guests to stay over, a sit-down dinner for 12, lounge space for 8, and maybe even a steam room.
So we’re asking you to redesign a small space thinking about these core ideas:
- transforming space - use one space for work, play, sleep, guests
- digitize everything - photos, books, music
- from ownership to access - think Netflix, Zipcar, Airbnb, etc.
- only the essentials - cut down on extraneous stuff, leaving only what’s really necessary
The winning concept will be used in a renovation of a 420sf apartment in New York City in mid 2011. Ideas will remain online as reference, to inspire and encourage others to rethink how they buy, rent, renovate and furnish their future properties.
Recently, this video of IBNIZ in action made its way around the electronic music blogosphere. IBNIZ is an extremely enigmatic art platform. It’s not necessarily easy, or pretty, or even broadly useful. IBNIZ is uniquely targeted at a small coterie of artists with specific aesthetic goals. I had the opportunity to ask Viznut, the creator of IBNIZ, about the language, and his views were so intriguing that I am publishing them unedited here.
Modern Pictograms is a typeface made for interface designers and programmers. Designed to work on-screen at sizes down to 18 pixels. Install the OpenType file for Photoshop mockups and drop in the @font-face code into your CSS to use right in your Web page. We’re offering it free, but donations accepted.
The font is licensed with Open Font License. In short, you can’t resell it as is, but you can incorporate it into your work and make a profit on that.
Our hand-made bow ties have a unique design that makes them exceptionally sharp and easy to use.
Each bow tie is delivered, already tied and ready to use, in its own cylinder which perfectly preserves the shape. All you need to do is up your collar, do a simple knot around the neck, and pull the collar down again.
Naturally, you can undo the bow tie and tie it by yourself if you so wish, as all our bow ties are self-tieable.
Today we are launching code.nasa.gov, the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities. The site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and contribution.
